Book-Club

Our latest book to read is: It would be great if we could be on the same page (pun intended) by all reading the same book although I understand this isn’t alway possible.

Dear Sophie, I was deeply moved and enlightened by your latest book. Your vivid and flowing prose brought the story to life, and it was clear that you had poured your heart and soul into your research. Your decision to travel to Israel and walk on those ancient paths was a testament to your dedication to your craft. Your love of this planet is palpable. The implications you have unfurled for understanding the true history of Christianity is enormous.

And my own body felt more alive than it ever had, as if the woman’s long-nailed finger had reached into my chest and kindled the flame in my heart. I could hear every sound around me again, painfully. I swallowed, tasting each particular smell. Human piss. Dirty wool. The sweat of a person about to die. Gummy and blue, like rainwater caught in a stone’s cleft. Bird droppings. Balsam perfume. Galbanum incense. The dense, moist center of yeasty bread.

LACUNA A small comfort to know you already have lips, eyelashes, a bellybutton, a way of taking coffee; already have friends, ticket stubs, scars,

We have a loose rule that everyone in the club gets to choose a book for us all to read. We’re in agreement to read it - or some of it, even if we don’t like it.

Thanks Sue. Nice book. You gutted me. The cover of the book is innocuous enough, but wading into those pages, I found myself wandering through a landscape both haunting and visceral. It was far from a meandering journey of fiction, but a raw traversal through history’s harshest terrains. Each word, each account, felt like a shard of glass, piercing and cutting me.

Sitting on your deck with your laptop now, you realize there are so many possibilities in spiral-making. *From wikipedia: * Some of the most important sorts of two-dimensional spirals include:The Archimedean spiralThe hyperbolic spiralFermat’s spiralThe lituusThe logarithmic spiralThe Cornu spiralThe Fibonacci or golden spiralThe Spiral of TheodorusThe involute of a circle spiral

You’re sitting on your back deck. It’s mid-morning in late Spring. You have your coffee in hand and the local paper on your lap. You’re looking out over the back 40. You decided not to plant corn on this parcel to let the soil recuperate a bit.

In numbers, there lies a beauty profound, In spirals, this beauty is perfectly wound. From sunflower fields to the galaxies’ twirl, The spiral is nature’s own charming whirl.

I started a book club along with my buddy Brian. Years back I was originally involved with a blog called Quincy Writers Group with some local writers. The new blog is called Reading, Writing and Arithmetic Club. We are readers and writers and people who have a fascination with numbers and images (although this isn’t required to be a part of the group). We want to read good books and get together to discuss them. We also want to write essays, poems and just about anything. Some of us love numbers and like to write code to generate pictures and maybe write about that too!